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I walk a straight line, shackled chain. Oh, gruesome Gertie
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is calling my name. There is no mercy in this penitentiary.
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Just ask the.
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Hill string gang, wrangle the three.
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To die inside these walls inside the wild and when
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the wolf cries.
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Hey everyone and welcome back to Bloody Angola and another
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Fifty Shades of Evil episode. Today I'm going to bring
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you back to a horrific event and it starts with
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music and a parade. Now before the barricades were nothing
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but painted wood and good intentions, there were kids dancing.
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baseball jerseys, grandmothers in sequined dresses. Before a red Ford
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Escape became evidence, it was just a car on a
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Sunday in suburban Wisconsin. In Waukesha, Wisconsin was doing what
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it had done for decades, lining Main Street for Christmas.
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So let's go to November 21st of 2021. It's late afternoon.
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It's getting dark, but it's not quite dark yet. In
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the 58th annual Waukesha Christmas Parade is rolling the way
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a small American city wants the holiday to roll, right? Food, bands,
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folding chairs, people who knew each other by first name.
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But at 4.39 p.m., that ordinary afternoon ended. An SUV
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drove through the route and it didn't stop. Six people
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would die. More than 60 more would be hurt. 18
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of the injured were children ages 3 to 16. 10
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of those children went into intensive care. Three sets of
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siblings died. were among the wounded. One of those siblings,
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an eight-year-old boy marching with his baseball team and his
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12-year-old brother, wouldn't even survive the week. And the man
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behind the wheel of that vehicle was Daryl Edward Brooks Jr.
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What led to this, and why did no one see
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the warning signs of this evil act? That's what we're
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going to cover today, so let's get into it. And
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as I told you, February 21st, 1982, Daryl Edward Brooks Jr.
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Is born.
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Now, the childhood that follows is in Milwaukee. He grows
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up in a house ran by women. His mother is
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Dawn Woods. She's a Christian woman with Southern roots. Relatives
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on that side even include ministers. He has an older sister.
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And there's not in any reliable sense, a father in
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the daily work of raising him. He did have a father, obviously.
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He was an alcoholic. And this was a problem in
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many generations of that family. As a matter of fact,
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they would describe it as being in the male bloodline
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later on. The family struggled and lived on welfare for
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most of his childhood, and Daryl's mother worked two jobs because...
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One of the adults, being the father in this story,
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had chosen not to. Now Dawn would say later it
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was a loving house. She would say her son did
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not come from a bad family. What she will never
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say is that the father stayed and got sober because
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he did not. He did not stay and he did
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not get sober. And young Daryl watched that. Now, around 11,
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his grandmother dies. And later, Daryl would claim he went
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into a deep depression. What doctors called in the mid
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1990s manic depression or bipolar disorder. And at 12 years old,
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Daryl is admitted to a mental hospital. He's put on medication.
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He attempts suicide more than once, and he also struggled
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in school. Now, Milwaukee in those years where he lived,
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pretty tough neighborhood, full of drugs, full of prostitution. And
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he would later say that many of the boys around
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him would never see 18, either having been killed or
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If they saw 18, they were already in jail. So
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by the middle of the 90s, a medical file already
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existed with his mental state. But a criminal file did
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not exist, at least until his junior year of high school.
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He's 17 at that time. He gets into a fight.
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He pulls out a knife and he actually slashes a
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man's face, which of course would lead to his arrest.
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An eventual sentence to six months in jail. He then
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gets released and he's placed on 18 months of probation.
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Now at this point, he is 18 years old. Then
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in 2002, another arrest in Milwaukee County, this time for
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possession of THC. He pleads guilty. He gets 50 days
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in jail with work release and he gets his driver's
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license suspended for six months. In 2003, again in Milwaukee County,
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he gets arrested, this time for resisting and obstructing an officer,
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and he gets 20 more days in jail. In February
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of 2005, on his 23rd birthday in Manitowoc County, he
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is charged with obstruction, and he fails to appear in court,
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so a bench warrant gets issued. In that same year,
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he also gets a disorderly conduct ticket doesn't pay the fine,
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and so he serves yet another 30 days in jail. Daryl,
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pretty aware that the police in Wisconsin and the courts
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in Wisconsin are catching on to him, he leaves Wisconsin.
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and he heads to Reno, Nevada, looking for a fresh start.
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So let's go to September 28th of 2006. He's 24
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at this time, and police arrest him in what's known
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as Sparks, Wisconsin. The charge is statutory sexual seduction in
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contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a 15-year-old girl.
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He apparently got this girl pregnant, and he tells the
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police what you would expect him to tell the police.
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He said he thought she was older. He said she
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had him fooled and that she should be an actress.
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He said he did not know until she was pregnant
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how old she was and that she withheld her age
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because she knew that he wouldn't have stayed. So going
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into 2007, he is convicted of that sex offense with
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a minor and he's required to register as a sex offender.
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And the court tells him to stay away from the
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victim forever. but he doesn't stay away. Of course, he
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gets incarcerated, and from the county jail, he steals a
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phone card and calls her multiple times, Then, after his release,
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he actually confronts her at a bus stop. The police
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become aware of this, and with that stunt, he goes
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back to jail. So on July 9th of 2007, while
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still in jail in Nevada, he writes to Judge Robert Perry,
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and he tells this judge that he grew up with
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no father, he was on welfare, he had a rough start,
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he was beat when he was younger, just all this bullshit.
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All the things you would expect to garner as much
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sympathy as possible. And the judge didn't buy it. He's
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still sitting in jail. But eventually, he does get released.
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But in 2009, just about a year later, Nevada marks
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him as what's known as noncompliant on a sex offender registry. Apparently,
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he did not return the annual paperwork. And the address
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that they had on file was no longer accurate. He
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had moved since that time. He also had a paternity
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warrant out on him due to a child that he
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fathered and was not paying child support. Imagine that. So
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he gets locked up again. And of course, He gets
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released again. Then on February of 2010 in Wood County, Wisconsin,
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a woman tells police he got in an argument with her.
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He shoved her to the ground and grabbed her throat.
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The charges that he is charged with are strangulation and suffocation,
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as well as criminal damage to property and battery for this.
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He pleads no contest to strangulation and the other counts,
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they're dismissed. And he gets a whopping 90 days in
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jail and work release, along with three years probation for this.
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And the conditions of his release include counseling, prescribed medication,
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and no contact with the victim. And I want you
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to look at this. This is a pattern, right? This
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guy has already got a criminal record longer than most
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people will accrue in a lifetime, even when they're bad people.
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But it's a pattern. He's figured out, I can pretty
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much do whatever I want, and I'm only going to get,
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you know, six months in jail, three months in jail.
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It's ridiculous, the revolving door with this guy at this time.
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Of course, he doesn't learn, right? Then on March 25th
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of 2011 in Milwaukee, he gets pulled over for a
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seatbelt violation. He pulls over, the policeman gets out, and
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then he takes off as the policeman's getting out. The
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policeman was actually in front of him, not behind him
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at the stop. The policeman claims Brooks attempted to run
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over him, and that leads to a resisting arrest and
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obstruction charge. Probably should have been an attempted murder charge
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if you ask me. But for that, he gets a
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whopping 37 days in jail. That's it for trying to
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run over a police officer. The rest of 2011 and
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early 2012, even more arrest, possession of THC again, misdemeanor
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bail jumping, more THC, sentences of 180 days at a
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time for these, and he's just in and out constantly.
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He writes to a judge on the child support issues
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he was having, and get this, He writes that the
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reason he cannot pay child support is because he keeps
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getting incarcerated. He said that's why the money's not there. Now,
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imagine that. This dude is blaming the fact that he
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cannot pay child support on the fact that he keeps
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breaking the law and getting caught. You can't make that
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shit up. So eventually he's released again. And on November
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of 2012, Nevada runs a sex offender sweep. Officers go
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to the last address that Brooks gave them. And it's
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a vacant lot inside a mobile home park. The property
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manager puts it in writing. He is not a resident.
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He has never been a resident in the registry, which
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is supposed to be kind of a leash for him
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so they can keep tabs on him. The address he
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had not only didn't exist at the time, it never existed. Now,
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what the police didn't know is he was not even
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in Nevada anymore. He was back in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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But this guy, he sucks at being a criminal, if
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you ain't figured that out, and it's not long before
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he is arrested again in Milwaukee, and he's charged with
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failing to register, failing to tell Nevada that he moved,
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and he posts bail, but he does not go back
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to court, and a warrant is issued. And five years later,
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he was still not picked up for that warrant. So
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let's go to July 24th of 2020. This is in Milwaukee,
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and he's living with his mother and his nephew at
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the time. Now, he and his nephew, they get in
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a fight over a cell phone. Nephew leaves with a friend,
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and Daryl walks into the front yard with a gun.
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And as his nephew is leaving with this friend, he
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fires at them. Police... Get called. They find Brooks at
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the house. He's on an air mattress. And right near
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where he was laying on that air mattress, police find
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a Beretta 9mm. They run that gun and figure out
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it's stolen. They also find three multicolored pills that test Beretta.
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positive for methamphetamine. So detectives take him back to the station.
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They interview him and he blames his son for the
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stolen guns. He also offers to become an informant for
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those drug pills that he had, that methamphetamine. And he says, look,
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if I can avoid being locked up, I'll tell you
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who sold me all that. He's ready to sell everybody out.
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The police, they're not interested. They charge him with two
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counts of second-degree reckless endangering safety while armed and one
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count of possession of a firearm by a felon. Cash
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bail was set at $ 10, 000, and of course, he ain't
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got that. So he sits in jail. Now, in August
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of 2020, that bail, for whatever reason, is adjusted down
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to $ 7, 500. But that's cool. That's okay, because he ain't
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got $ 7, 500 either. So he remains in jail, which is
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the best place for this guy. And in February of 2021,
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the state, they're ready for trial. But the defense was not.
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And for reasons I don't think Anyone knows his bail
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gets cut again, this time to just $ 500. So you
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went from $ 10, 000 to $ 500 and he's able to post
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that $ 500 bail and he walks out of that 2020
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gun case on bond. So let's go to late May
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of 2021. He's in Union City, Georgia. He's at what's
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known as Country Hearth Inn, and he's there with a
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girlfriend and a person in the next room. Just another patron.
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They didn't know this guy. They hear an argument through
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the wall between Brooks and his girlfriend. They also hear
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what they determined as punching. a male punching a female
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inside of this room. So this guy in the next room,
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he confronts, he goes and bangs on the door and
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he confronts Brooks. The police get called, but it's just
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a misdemeanor battery charge. So he's released, and he's not
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George's problem for long. He goes back to Wisconsin. Now,
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about six months later, in November of 2021, in Milwaukee
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at a gas station, more issues arrive. Brooks gets into
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an argument and punches his then-girlfriend and the mother of
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his child, Erica Patterson. Then he runs over her and...
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in a red Ford Escape, and that's going to play
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a big part later on. Now, she told police she
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believed he was trying to kill her, and he was
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charged with felony second-degree reckless endangering safety. Crazy to me.
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He tried to run over her, and he's getting these
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small charges relative to what he is doing, but all
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this would be a key later on. You notice this
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is the second time he's tried to run over someone. First,
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the police officer, now his girlfriend. So bail gets set
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at a measly $ 1, 000 for this. He posts that bail.
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This is on November 19th of 2021, and he was
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released from jail. So let's go to two days later,
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November 21st of 2021. Brooks drives from Milwaukee to Waukesha,
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Wisconsin that afternoon, and he's in his mother's Ford Escape,
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Red Ford Escape, to meet Patterson. They argued on the
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phone and they messaged throughout the day, arguing with each other.
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He meets her at what is known as Frame Park. Now,
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according to her, he punched her in the face. It
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leaves her eyes swollen. And he actually drove around with
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her in the car in this Red Escape. And he